The Box was originally a Twilight Zone episode, IIRC, but then other versions were made. The gist is that a guy shows up at a house with a box and red button. Says the box will be left for a day and if the recipient pushes the red button, they get $1 million. But someone they don’t know somewhere in the world will die and it won’t personally affect whoever pushes the button.
It seems like quite a parallel to climate change, where pushing the red button means you can eat copious meat, drive a car, do regular air travel for short vacations, etc. But in the end you are morally responsible for someone’s death and the death of some species of animals.
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